Threadless T-Shirts - Black Rectangle

Black Rectangle

Submitted by:

Joelnz
on Jul 06 '07

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Average score:

1.12 out of 5

Number scored:

2,596 people

Scoring finished:

310 days ago

Comments:

252 comments

Design forum

Joelnz on Jul 02 '07

3 days later

hangthedj on Jul 06 '07

Serious? Are you really???

and0r on Jul 06 '07

wow...talk about simplicity

Bowtie on Jul 06 '07

Would look better on a black tee. :-D

mj00 on Jul 06 '07

Thanks for wasting everyone's time, I guess...

KM3 on Jul 06 '07

Oh man, the detail is magnificent.

ruby soho on Jul 06 '07

Lose the rectangle...

victimofopportunity on Jul 06 '07

*slow clap*

OrangeRadioKitty on Jul 06 '07

No, really, I'm laughing out loud!

martiandrivein on Jul 06 '07

Lose the Text

thebaddestrobot on Jul 06 '07

Lol. Someone already tried this I believe.

kooky love on Jul 06 '07

still GREAT $5 ...JK

sarahtomic on Jul 06 '07

I agree with Bowtie--I'd really like to see this on a black tee. This is one of my favorite designs yet, but I'd like it maybe a little smaller and an off-to-the-side bottom placement. $5

renfrue on Jul 06 '07

i think ur design is sensored on my puter cuz it's not showing up

bsweber on Jul 06 '07

do you have a link to a larger view? i love what you've got going here, i'd just like to be able to see it a little clearer. $5

its.shan.shan on Jul 06 '07

Oh GOSH! This just made me happy inside. Oh jeez. I would love to walk around the streets of town sporting this.

Joelnz on Jul 06 '07

Yea , click the detail button for a closer look

bsweber on Jul 06 '07

ah yes, but i'd like a detail of the upper left portion if possible

Joelnz on Jul 06 '07

yep sure

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9467505@N08/734452163/

bsweber on Jul 06 '07

gracias

Joelnz on Jul 06 '07

deadly serious.

gruner on Jul 06 '07

Spinal Tap reference?

"It's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black."

- Nigel Tufnel

nes-k on Jul 06 '07

ahah !

kaloyster on Jul 06 '07

I hate to bust your ego but this has been done before and the former got all the attention he wants so this is unoriginal.

levemelone on Jul 06 '07

edges are too pixilated...

but still...

0

rolling on Jul 06 '07

What happen? I just saw a big black border here.

FRICKINAWESOME on Jul 06 '07

The young lovers site had a similiar idea recently, but put a fancy frame around a black rectangle and in small type put "black cat eating licorice at midnight. That is funny and worth a 5$. your ultra-hip and modern "statement" gets a 1 because you are trying to pass this off as serious art instead of just a random pisser-offer.

FRICKINAWESOME on Jul 06 '07

Or is this shirt an homage to the final moments of The Sopranos? Bravo then!

BubuSam on Jul 06 '07

I see nothing

iluvebj on Jul 06 '07

lol. its something i would wear i guess

sudanesepooch on Jul 06 '07

$5.

19daniel89 on Jul 06 '07

haha i actually like this a lot

kaloyster on Jul 06 '07

Yeah young lovers just sent me a newsletter about that shirt, FRICKINAWESOME.

Bramish on Jul 06 '07

Again. I would wear it. But I wouldn't pay $15 for it.

Joelnz on Jul 06 '07

neither, i might just make my own. heh

tesco on Jul 06 '07

yes

wotto on Jul 06 '07

I'm surprised threadless let this thru.

wempu on Jul 06 '07

never seen anything like this...it's so horrible it makes it good :D hah.

ilovetomasb on Jul 06 '07

u guys dont see the ducks having sex?

Tonteau on Jul 06 '07

I want to give it 0 and I want to give it 5.

I'll sleep on it and get back to you.

sometimessane on Jul 06 '07

do the young lovers shirts really think their shirts are worth £40?

sometimessane on Jul 06 '07

young lovers site even

sugarmonster on Jul 06 '07

hideous

tobasco on Jul 06 '07

there arnt enough zeros to give this.

N2O on Jul 06 '07

Funny, but how did this not get declined?

stevetrpi on Jul 06 '07

Would have preferred white square on white shirt.

Washburngirl on Jul 06 '07

Seriously I have submitted things that actually took time to make and they weren't let through so why is this okay?!?!?!

gyrfalcon on Jul 06 '07

It needs more cowbell.

LulaBlue on Jul 06 '07

humm....
interesting....

bloatbugjen on Jul 06 '07

: (

lilyiris on Jul 06 '07

Ok... I did laugh... but so long as we all know you aren't serious????

Ninjapanda on Jul 06 '07

*Whew* - relief. If Threadless let this through, then they HAVE to post mine. YAY!

Oh, and uh.... This shirt sucks. hard. bad.

Larlar on Jul 06 '07

You got me, I laughed. But it's kind of unsettling to know that this got approved for voting.

Dirkje on Jul 06 '07

Wow this looks great! The blue, the red, the gold color. This is absoluyely amazing!!

Just kidding... it sucks

Espoz on Jul 06 '07

There's too much happening on the shirt. Make it a bit simpler and it gets a $5 from me.

ederlezi on Jul 06 '07

nicolethelez on Jul 06 '07

well what a waste of time

caleb haws on Jul 06 '07

there should be an option for a smaller placement

:-P

stargirl22 on Jul 06 '07

haha i would wear this to my art classes

stubbythumbs on Jul 06 '07

nice sense of humor!

shirtflirt on Jul 06 '07

tesco lies

Less Nameless on Jul 06 '07

This is a black on white crime of a design ; and it's cutting into your fifteen minutes

xmyles104212 on Jul 06 '07

Good thing you included a zoom.

biesdesignstudio on Jul 06 '07

eh.

artandstory on Jul 06 '07

it's not really BLACK black, is it? Really, there's no such thing as a true black. It doesn't exist. Therefore, I'd like this one to be a true black and just not exist.

kingforaday on Jul 06 '07

how did this get past the judges?

they must be playing a trick on us

kihou on Jul 06 '07

People do this all the time. I have seen at least 4 subs like this in my time at threadless.

Christoph Jenkins on Jul 06 '07

love the detail button

teetsuuoo on Jul 06 '07

hmm. kasimir malewitsch would have puked. a square would at least have been a quotation.
btw.: is it black black or a multi-colored black ?

lenoircouture on Jul 06 '07

i guess it could signify the void in your talent?

Michigrind on Jul 06 '07

da Face on Jul 06 '07

I'm trying to find the sailboat but I am afraid I fail..
But maybe try this on a different colour; Heather Grey perhaps.

Justin Manning on Jul 06 '07

If it was in bright colours I would actually wear this AND I would like it better if the rectangle wasnt as big and wasnt centered

Alexandra Marie on Jul 06 '07

You're not serious.

ISABOA on Jul 06 '07

been done

shesJACK on Jul 06 '07

yeah i remember commenting that one. ^

Mandyhello on Jul 06 '07

the other one was a square ..

yeah, this sucks..

SEVEN-HUNDRED on Jul 06 '07

what a lot of comments

murray1010 on Jul 06 '07

I must be missing something. All I see is a black rectangle.

atomic child on Jul 06 '07

IT'S A MONOLITH.....

Torakamikaze on Jul 06 '07

the detail is fantastic!

Emily72 on Jul 06 '07

Hmm.. maybe the doctors right that I need glasses, all I see is a black rectangle

grrraaacee on Jul 06 '07

this is great! nice work. 5$

orillese on Jul 06 '07

Are the people taking this seriously really that dense? I mean, I could understand if you were mad because it's been done before, but most are not even attacking that.

Sad, sad.

allangv123 on Jul 06 '07

AWESOME SHIRT!!!! $5 my dude, $5. =)

sammers on Jul 06 '07

How Malevich of you...not sure if that is your reference but I get it. Obviously some people don't like art history.

jessicalauren on Jul 06 '07

i...dont know what to say.
are you serious?

typhoonorchid on Jul 06 '07

Like it. $5

kaloyster on Jul 06 '07

The judges ain' playing tricks, kingforaday.

Remember they accepted a design like this before, so prolly they'll try to test if the market will love it, if it does they'll print it.

Craigory on Jul 06 '07

jrmasm on Jul 06 '07

I love Russian avant garde art.

Just not on a t-shirt.

MooCowMoo on Jul 06 '07

This shirt is so racist. I can't believe Threadless put it up here.
I don't know anyone who would want to wear such a blatant racial slur on their shirt...way to insult the entire Asian community.

dacat on Jul 07 '07

This has become a funny blog about a previous design

mightymouse1584 on Jul 07 '07

can we get a high res version?

Quid Pro Quo on Jul 07 '07

Color options? Also I'd prefer it off centered and lose the text.
$5

Joelnz on Jul 07 '07

the other one was a square, this is a rectangle!

Jennyliz on Jul 07 '07

Or is this shirt an homage to the final moments of The Sopranos?

Nice! Way to go frickinawesome.

FRICKINAWESOME on Jul 07 '07

hehehe....thanks jenny.

Espoz on Jul 06 '07
There's too much happening on the shirt. Make it a bit simpler and it gets a $5 from me.

Agreed!

And i think i preferred the other square sub more than this rectangle.

staffell on Jul 07 '07

threadless obviously put this through just for the comments

staffell on Jul 07 '07

0$!

Verdana on Jul 07 '07

I dig it.

yoshi andrian on Jul 07 '07

LOL! 100 comments in one day!! i give you 5 for that!!

denji on Jul 07 '07

is there any black magic you cursin the ppl here? tssk.

Tankman on Jul 07 '07

if this becomes a shirt, I'm going to kill all of you...

Digdag88 on Jul 07 '07

i like the idea, but this is terrible excecution. you probably should have thought it through a little bit more before submitting it, and got some other opinions in critiques first.

clean it up a bit, maybe add a bit more detail, and you'll have at least a 4 from me. you seem to have some good ideas, would you be interested in a collab?

Rathany on Jul 07 '07

Too boxy. Could you do a less boxy rectangle?

mezo on Jul 07 '07

Get your eyes off of my big black box!

jakeis on Jul 07 '07

this is the most commented design ive ever seen on the website well done and i particularly like the shading lol :D

Seosaimhthin on Jul 07 '07

What 'idea'? Am I missing something? Usually these kind of designs have some message on them in blacker text or something. I see nothing. Did I not get the joke?

pudge_monster on Jul 07 '07

very modern :]

decembers_default on Jul 07 '07

I like circles sorry
-$5

Chris Carney on Jul 07 '07

Every one seems to have completely missed the symbolic significance of the black rectangle. The lights have been turned off! We must , each and everyone of us ,in our own imagination, switch the light on! and then we will see what is really on that shirt.....another black rectangle..I'm smiling

Mr. Bacon on Jul 07 '07

I think that this shirt is good, but it needs some text to help with the idea, also, get rid of the ducks having sex, and then i'd give it a... ...wait for it...

...0!

Spam69 on Jul 07 '07

Mr Bacon, you are such an arse. I do so hope MooCowMoo was serious. That would make my evening........I think it's racist too but it's so obvious that it's a black supremist shirt with the strong black shape dominating the white fabric of society....................or maybe not.............. Kudos, but I'm giving you a big fat zero as i don't actually want to see it made.

styx021 on Jul 07 '07

So i got bored and took a screenshot of the rectangle and took it into Photoshop. I increased the brightness and then increased the contrast and came to the conclusion that the rectangle is not really black... It has varying shades, check it out

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/7795/picture4ys5.png

there obviously must be some deeper meaning

Chris Carney on Jul 07 '07

Spam69: If the light is switch off, then when the light is switch on, the shirt could actually be completely white. Your theory now lays in taters on the floor like a fallen stack of cards

victimofopportunity on Jul 07 '07

$0.

koolest_chicken_91 on Jul 07 '07

needs work. i would like to see real emotions

Chris Carney on Jul 07 '07

$o..and

ashesofwinter on Jul 07 '07

I agree with Bowtie, black is my favorite colour.

sonmi on Jul 07 '07

well, i would wear this! i love that it made it through both the submission process and first day.

travioli on Jul 07 '07

B000000$

avalanche_lily on Jul 07 '07

Haha! I kind of like this.

It reminds me of a guy I knew who had a big black circle as a tattoo.

smoogle on Jul 07 '07

pieace of crap! PIEACE OF CRAP!!!!!!

avalanche_lily on Jul 07 '07

IT'S PIECE!!!

bsweber on Jul 07 '07

smoogle on Jul 07 '07
pieace of crap! PIEACE OF CRAP!!!!!!

lol

don't you mean pieaouce?

tracerbullet on Jul 07 '07

looks like shimala's asleep at the ol' computer

erin_everlasting on Jul 07 '07

erm..... 0_0

Ampsalot on Jul 07 '07

yay....provoke more more

k8_thedancer on Jul 08 '07

There's so much symbolism in this tee it makes my head hurt...

shibby558899 on Jul 08 '07

MooCowMoo on Jul 08 '07

I do so hope MooCowMoo was serious.

I'm as serious as an over-sized top hat.

avada-kedeborah on Jul 08 '07

wow what controversy

NothingbutMatt on Jul 08 '07

Maybe wraparound?

spontaneous_wild_chook on Jul 08 '07

i love the n00bs who just dont get it! oh to be that young again!!!

melanies felony on Jul 08 '07

noobs? i think you mean newbs wild chook. get what? why should someone recieve 2000 dollars worth of prizes for a damn rectangle?

icebar on Jul 08 '07

the title doesn't really make sense...

Kallass on Jul 08 '07

WOWWWW, You are guiness!! I going pay $2500 to buy this shirt. Please send it to the adress below, and let me know how to send the payment to you.

Address: 8025 FXCK Park, PA 59100, HELL.

Chris Carney on Jul 08 '07

Has anyone else noticed a very vague figure inside the rectangle? You'll have to stare hard at it

MooCowMoo on Jul 08 '07

^ I saw it too, it's rather R rated for a t-shirt though.

ilikeice on Jul 08 '07

I am having a good laugh at whoever said this was a blatant slur on the Asian community. Oh man. My face hurts from the mirth. $5.

sonmi on Jul 08 '07

i love that people are getting so worked up over this.

Skipper6745 on Jul 08 '07

I don't dig art school bullshit.

And I think it's funny this has so many comments, also.

-Iain- on Jul 08 '07

this shirt has a genuis to it in the same way that Borat does: it is a tool to expose the stupidity, ignorance and pent up anger of the commentors on Threadless. So to all of you who posted hate; HA! jokes on you...

(i gave it a 5)

Rachel Ray Gun on Jul 08 '07

It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black.

avalanche_lily on Jul 08 '07

I don't know what's better... the angry comments on this, or the fact that it has a zoom feature.

iamregina on Jul 08 '07

lollllll

jpiatt on Jul 08 '07

I think I'd actually wear this. I wouldn't buy it. I'd have to get it as a gift. No way I'd pay for it. But if I got it for free, I'd wear this.

Trishk on Jul 08 '07

Haha! I kind of like this.

It reminds me of a guy I knew who had a big black circle as a tattoo.

A few weeks ago I saw a guy who had an ALF tattoo. That's hardcore.

Spam69 on Jul 08 '07

perhaps it's like the black box on a plane. if you get hit by a bus while wearing this shirt it records the fact that you wern't looking where you were going because you were looking at the arse of some stranger walking down the street.

ecky_ducky on Jul 08 '07

Gold. Print this. Right now.

APcaitZ on Jul 08 '07

this is really amazing compared to a lot of submissions I've seen !
I give it a seventeenfiftynine
keep up the good work

Simply_ Lovely on Jul 08 '07

I just read all the comments.
& I got nothing, but:
"uhh" *scratches head*

melanies felony on Jul 08 '07

wow im the one billionth comment- just thought id comment again. reading this page is better than reading any blog. 20 bucks says he averages a 4.6

Simply_ Lovely on Jul 08 '07

I gave you at least a 2
because you have the
audacity to submit this
and say hey YEAH it's mine.

noponies on Jul 08 '07

if this tanks, just sub a white on white malevich styled shirt.

Ballerinasicko on Jul 08 '07

This Basicaly sucks, which you probably knew it would as you were putting it on here.
It Sucks.

DrAHLiversleeve on Jul 08 '07

I give it a $5 - Only because nobody else had the balls to do this. Its funny... and its better than retarded "searching for love" shirts, or ones that are filled with ridiculous shit. Good job.

Chris Carney on Jul 09 '07

Maybe this design should be renamed "A darker shade of black" Please note Joelnz

Chris Carney on Jul 09 '07

Or "The kings cloths"